MRS. F. JEFFERY by Mrs. F. Jeffery

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 6, 1864

MRS. F. JEFFERY

By Mrs. F. Jeffery

From Sister Jeffery.

Bro. White: It is the love I feel for present truth and an interest for its advancement that I venture to adress a few lines to the Review. We rejoice that the light has been so abundantly bestowed on us. We feel that we want others to share the same precious truths with us. We are sinful by nature. Our minds are dark until illuminated by his quickening and enlivening grace.

A little company of us here are striving to keep the commandments, and endeavoring to walk in the light. The crosses we bear, and the persecutions we receive, we hope will serve to further us on in the cause of him who when on earth had not where to lay his head. Here we have no abiding place, but are seeking one to come, whose builder and maker is God.

We are often led to exclaim, in the language of the poet,

"Oh what are all our sufferings here, If thou but count us meet With that enraptured host to appear And worship at thy feet."

Some of the brethren and sisters from St. Charles visited us last Sabbath, and we were made to rejoice while we listened to words of consolation and good cheer from them. Pray for them and us that we remain steadfast unto the coming of our Lord. We are about making an effort to build a convenient place of worship and hope by continuance in well-doing that we may accomplish our object. I have been led to rejoice in view of the precious light received from reading Spiritual Gifts and hope the time is not distant when we shall hear and see some of the brethren in the ministry in these parts and especially yourself and sister White.

MRS. F. JEFFERY

Ithaca, Gratiot Co. Mich.